Rebooted...Originally posted November 25, 2014 A special thanks to Dave Sez for turning me on to this band!
Au Pairs - Live In Berlin 1983
Soundboard @320
{Out of Print}
Track List: 1. Diet 2. Headache for Michelle 3. Dear John 4. Love song 5. Set Up 6. Inconvenience 7. Armagh 8. Repitition 9. We're So Cool 10. Cum Again 11. Peace of My Heart
Other Au Pairs boots are available. If you find a dead link leave a comment on the post.
Au Pairs - Pinkpop Festival Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands
1982, May the 31st
AUD > ??? > CDR > EAC Secure > FLAC Frontend(8) 39:38 minutes - Sound: Very Good (+)
How about another helping of Au Pairs? OK then, here we have another well recorded festival appearance. The vocals are intermittently a tad muffled, and there is also very occasional bass distortion - both issues are very minor and this is an enjoyable listen. Cheers, Cyrus
Set List: 01. Inconvenience 3:09 02. Headache (for Michelle) 5:46 03. That's When It's Worth It 3:46 04. Don't Lie Back 3:07 05. Set-Up 3:35 06. Sex Without Stress 3:58 07. America 3:25 08. Dear John 2:59 09. It's Obvious 6:36 10. We're So Cool 3:15
All notes, photos, music and thanks go to Cyrus, Dave Sez andDRC4
Au Pairs - Tonmodern Festival, Rote Fabrik Zürich, Switzerland
11.03.1983 FLAC
DRS 2 Radio @flac
Line-up: The line-up is probably the same as at the gig in Hamburg's Markthalle on 17th February Lesley Woods - guitar/vocals Paul Foad - guitar/vocals Nick O'Connor - bass/keyboards (replacing Jane Munro) Pete Hammond - drums Cara Tivey - keyb Graeme Hamilton - trumpet Jayne Morris - perc
Set List: intro America [banter] set up / inconvenience sex without stress she runs with honey lion love intact / stepping out of line headache beast of a machine it's obvious untitled fiasco / she runs with honey lion love untitled / hokka he ha
Thanks to Nadir_53 for sharing this recording on Dime.
Thanks go to Dave Sez andDRC4for photos, notes and making this available.
The Au Pairs were a British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1978 and lasted until 1983. They produced two studio albums and three singles. Their songs
were said to have "contempt for the cliches of contemporary sexual politics" and their music has been compared to the Gang of Four and the Young Marble Giants. The band was led by Lesley Woods, who was once described as "one of the most striking women
in British rock".
~Wiki
From the Dave Sez archive, thanks to the great StevieD !
Set List:
Come Again Diet You Repetition It's Obvious Armagh Unfinished Business
Au Pairs - Live Alcuin College University of York York, UK November 7, 1981 @ FLAC AUD A-
Set List: 01 Breakdown 02 Set Up 03 Pretty Boys 04 Armagh 05 Instant Touch 06 Headache For Michelle 07 Inconvenience 08 Repetition 09 (Take Another Little) Piece of My Heart 10 We're So Cool 11 It's Obvious 12 Diet 13 Come Again 14 (Paranoia In) America 15 Dear John
Au Pairs: Lesley Woods (vocals, guitar); Paul Foad (guitar, cello, background vocals); Jane Munro (bass); Pete Hammond (drums, percussion).
Au Pairs - Lund, Sweden 1982 Audience Recording B+ @FLAC
From the Dave Sez archive:
The last of the Au Pairs posts, live in Sweden on 23rd September 1982, six months before the group folded. Being an audience recording, this is of lesser quality than the previous FM or soundboard sources, but is the best of the recordings from 1982 and includes every track from "Sense and Sensuality" except Tongue In Cheek and Fiasco. Their last recorded gig, probably in Vienna in February 1983, is available at http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2010/09/au-pairs-live-1983-tape-1983.html, and featured several new compositions, live versions of the demos they recorded for a third album that never saw the light of day ...
Set List: That's When It's Worth It Instant Touch Inconvenience Headache (For Michelle) Intact Sex Without Stress Shakedown Don't Lie Back Set Up Diet Steppin' Out Of Line We're So Cool America Dear John / It's Obvious
From the Dave Sez archive:
The Au Pairs on the 3rd October 1981 from the Berkeley Square Theatre, Berkeley, California at the end of their American tour.
Set List:
Shakedown Set Up Diet We're So Cool Headache (For Michele) Armagh Instant Touch Inconvenience Intact Repetition It's Obvious
From the Dave Sez archive: the first of two Dutch broadcasts of the Au Pairs, this one at the Rotterdam New Pop Festival on 16th August 1981 was filmed by Dutch TV - footage can be found on youtube.
Set List: Diet Armagh Shakedown Headache (For Michelle) Dear John Inconvenience It's Obvious Intact
We're So Cool Unfinished Business Set Up Diet Dear John It's Obvious We're So Cool Repetition Headache (For Michele)
Thanks to StevieD !
Bonus from the Dave Sez archive:
Beat Of A Machine Lion Love
Two demos only released on out-of-print 1993 RPM CD 16-track release of "Sense and Sensuality", see http://www.discogs.com/Au-Pairs-Sense-Sensuality/release/391473. They were excluded from Castle's 2002 10-track CD re-release, which corrected earlier speed problems.
Dojoji - Dutch mini-LP with Lesley Woods on vocals on all tracks
[vinyl rip @320]
Track List: A1 Quincunx (Look Out) 6:41 A2 Peh Peh Ook 6:06 B1 Fer Micello (Leaving Her Dreams Behind) 3:16 B2 Kiets Lorren (Runs With Honey) 4:37 B3 Katchakali 6:38
NB: Track B2 is a reprise of an Au Pairs song. The lyrics to tracks A1 and B1 to B3 are by Lesley Woods. All artwork included. On Dojoji, see http://www.discogs.com/artist/815689-Dojoji.
